Docker Job Trends in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 42 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +9
Permanent jobs citing Docker 51 18 42
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 2.84% 2.86% 3.68%
As % of the System Software category 41.80% 36.00% 38.53%
Number of salaries quoted 45 17 41
10th Percentile £51,281 £48,196 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +84.62% -45.83%
75th Percentile £74,750 £67,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,249 £68,750
Wales median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +37.93% -14.88%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 122 50 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 6.79% 7.94% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 101 49 86
10th Percentile £31,519 £35,000 £23,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +61.54% -36.40%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £51,398 £39,000
% change year-on-year +7.01% +31.79% -13.33%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in South Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -12 40 £68,000 +13.33% 12
Newport -16 7 £53,000 -23.19%
Caerphilly - 3 £67,500 -
Bridgend -10 1 £45,000 -21.74%
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.92%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 40 (78.43%) Azure
2 36 (70.59%) AWS
3 33 (64.71%) GCP
4 7 (13.73%) SaaS
5 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.80%) GitHub
6 4 (7.84%) PaaS
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (5.88%) IaaS
8 2 (3.92%) npm
8 2 (3.92%) Serverless
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.96%) Datadog
9 1 (1.96%) dbt
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Relational Database
2 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.80%) MySQL
3 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.84%) Ataccama
4 4 (7.84%) IBM InfoSphere
4 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (7.84%) TIBCO EBX
5 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.88%) JIRA
3 2 (3.92%) Bower
3 2 (3.92%) JMeter
4 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.96%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) Gradle
4 1 (1.96%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.96%) JUnit
4 1 (1.96%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (1.96%) Locust
4 1 (1.96%) Maven
4 1 (1.96%) MSTest
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
4 1 (1.96%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.92%) Finance
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (49.02%) Senior
2 18 (35.29%) Software Engineer
3 14 (27.45%) Lead
4 12 (23.53%) Developer
4 12 (23.53%) Technical Leader
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Web Developer
10 1 (1.96%) Java Software Developer
10 1 (1.96%) Senior Tester
10 1 (1.96%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (50.98%) React
2 18 (35.29%) NestJS
3 17 (33.33%) OAuth
3 17 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 17 (33.33%) OpenID
3 17 (33.33%) SAML
4 15 (29.41%) REST
5 8 (15.69%) AngularJS
6 7 (13.73%) Node.js
7 6 (11.76%) HTML
8 5 (9.80%) .NET
8 5 (9.80%) CSS
8 5 (9.80%) RESTful
8 5 (9.80%) Spring
8 5 (9.80%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.88%) Vue
9 3 (5.88%) Web Services
10 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
10 2 (3.92%) SOAP
10 2 (3.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.84%) Reference Data
3 3 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (68.63%) CI/CD
2 19 (37.25%) Containerisation
3 18 (35.29%) DevOps
3 18 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 16 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (29.41%) Agile
6 14 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (27.45%) Mentoring
6 14 (27.45%) Technology Transformation
6 14 (27.45%) Test Automation
7 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (19.61%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (15.69%) Observability
9 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (13.73%) Front End Development
10 7 (13.73%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (13.73%) Incident Response
10 7 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (11.76%) Code Quality
11 6 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) SQL
2 9 (17.65%) Java
2 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 9 (17.65%) Python
3 7 (13.73%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.84%) Bash
4 4 (7.84%) C#
4 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.92%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 38 (74.51%) Terraform
2 27 (52.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Okta
1 14 (27.45%) Ping Identity
2 12 (23.53%) Informatica
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.84%) ForgeRock
4 4 (7.84%) IBM
4 4 (7.84%) TIBCO